The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 251
ries, but toomuch in sight, and diminish the general effect. Great beauties are however, remarked in the group ofBabylonians standing at the foot of the statue; andespecially in many of the figures of the Macedoniansoldiery. Notwithstanding the merit of the picture, it must beconfessed that it is… … THE DEATH OF DEMOSTHENES. M. BOISSELIER. Demosthenes, by his eloquence, roused the Grecianempire against Philip, and, upon all occasions, attacked,with considerable asperity, the ambition of Alexander;but these princes triumphed, in the end, over the obsta-cles that he opposed to their designs,…
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